Comments on: Election Day: Updates on the Voting in Iranhttp://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/
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By: Ohg Rea Tonehttp://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/comment-page-2/#comment-329335
Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:31:39 +0000http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/#comment-329335The common denominator between modern day Tehran, Iran, and the 1960’s Birmingham, Alabama, is in mass communications. The governments are vastly different and the reaction by authority in Iran should not be underestimated. ……..

]]>By: free tibethttp://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/comment-page-2/#comment-326723
Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:38:56 +0000http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/#comment-326723that election was rigged. they counted more votes for Amehinijad than he could have possibly gotten.
long live Moussavi the real president of Iran!!!!!!
]]>By: sanazhttp://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/comment-page-2/#comment-325697
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:56:25 +0000http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/#comment-325697hi im from iran plz help us. they kill us plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
]]>By: j. reillyhttp://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/comment-page-2/#comment-325055
Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:04:22 +0000http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/#comment-325055Who cares who they elect !! Its none of our business.. They will do what they think is the best thing for them..They arn’t interested in whats best for us… Lets mind our own business of which there is a massive amount of business to attend to here in our country..
]]>By: Shahabhttp://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/comment-page-2/#comment-324821
Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:04:20 +0000http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/#comment-324821They say, it was a free election. Then why they are blocking websites, why they are cutting phone connections, why they try to intercept satellite contact?
I go to a University in Esfahan, it was closed today, students burnt it down yesterday, government says Mousavi supporters are 32 percent, they say they are the minority. They think they can fool people, but they’re fooling themselves and they don’t understand.
]]>By: stevehttp://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/comment-page-2/#comment-324299
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:25:08 +0000http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/#comment-324299An Iranian friend of mine pointed me to this study of the Iranian Interior Ministry’s release of election data:

You are incorrect in thinking that the Guardian Council is a group of people that are popularly elected. Instead, half of the body is made up of people handpicked by the Supreme Leader, and the other half are picked by the Majlis.

Sure, there are some aspects of the system that have some democratic principles, but it’s a huge stretch to try and call the system democratic at all if that is indeed the point you were trying to make.

]]>By: Mohammadhttp://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/comment-page-1/#comment-323871
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:31:00 +0000http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/#comment-323871Most Web users are pro-Mousavi, and they tend to ignore the conservative majority in the rural areas and small cities who support Ahmadinejad.

As an Iranian who didn’t vote for Ahmadinejad, I don’t think Ahmadinejad needed vote rigging to be elected again. He has plenty of supporters, even in Tehran. But they are not as loud as Mousavi’s supporters, thus most people fall to the illusion that everyone is pro-Mousavi.

]]>By: The axis of democracy.http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/comment-page-1/#comment-323841
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:04:31 +0000http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/#comment-323841With cries from the losing side that the election has been stolen, it would seem that Iran has achieved the same level of democracy as the United States, where similar protests followed the election stolen by Bush.
]]>By: Dave Klimanhttp://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/comment-page-1/#comment-323827
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:20:11 +0000http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/#comment-323827Blech. This feels just like 1980, 1984, 1988, 2000, and 2004 for me.

It is that sick feeling that all the hope and aspirations we have will just have to get stuffed back in and we better just hunker down and hope for the best.

Ahmadinejad surely lost, but what can really be done about it? It’s just like when bush “won” in 2000.

]]>By: Bob Waltonhttp://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/comment-page-1/#comment-323823
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:15:03 +0000http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/#comment-323823I fear the Iranian voters will learn shortly that in their election, like in recent US elections, many ballots cast for an opposition candidate are voided/challenged, misplaced or somehow unaccounted for.
]]>By: behjoohttp://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/comment-page-1/#comment-323817
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:04:01 +0000http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/#comment-323817All of iranian people sure that iranian government sharped in ellection of iran
]]>By: lisahttp://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/comment-page-1/#comment-323799
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:02:07 +0000http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/#comment-323799Everyone is depressed. The atmosphere is like a national mourning.

Massive cheating. Everyone in Iran wants the world to know that the vote is a fraud.

They all believe the whole thing was a charade to get people to vote in large numbers so that could say the people support Ahmadinezhad in large numbers.

This was not our vote!!!!!

]]>By: Craighttp://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/comment-page-1/#comment-323781
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:14:09 +0000http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/#comment-323781I doubt that votes from America (Baton Rouge, LA) will ever be counted. People are naive to believe that votes from outside the Islamic regime will ever be included in a country controlled by 12 Mullahs.
]]>By: Biancahttp://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/comment-page-1/#comment-323767
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:49:19 +0000http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/updates-on-irans-presidential-election/#comment-323767This has probably been one of the most saddest trips I have ever taken in my life. Im an american in Tehran right now. It’s about 9:00 am on saturday and it looks like Ahmadinejad will win this election. I’ve been here for the last three weeks. I’ve been fortunate because I’ve meet many different people here, some old pre-revolutionary writers, some shop owners, taxi drivers, and many other young citizens who were sure Moussavi was going to win.
I think the problem with this country is YES politics are definitely invovled. But alot of it has to do with the mentality of the people. People in the rural area’s are still very religious, and want this regime. And their votes count about 2/3 of the voters!!!!! Moussavi was probably the best of the candidates, but they are all bad and they all need to go. So if the people in Iran aren’t ready for change, then this government will stay and conintue destroy Iran.
It’s like a tree, you have to fix the roots in order for the tree to grow.
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